Author: Erin E Tocknell

Erin E. Tocknell grew up in Nashville but received all of her post-secondary education in or near Pittsburgh, earning her undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon in 2000 and her M.F.A. from West Virginia University in 2007. A winner of the AWP Intro Award in 2007, she has been published in the Tampa Review, The Southern Review, Ancient Paths, and the Oakland Review. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she has the daily privilege of introducing students at The McCallie School to the joys of literature, writing, and rowing.

Benu Press

By Erin E Tocknell

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "We're born into a world already in progress, like arriving late at a movie. Erin Tocknell, born to Nashville, loved the city in a wide-eyed, child's way, before she had a glimmer of the history that had shaped what she ...